Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Tension prevailed on Tuesday at the proposed Posco project site near port town Paradip as eight platoons of armed police conducted flag march apparently to create a fear psychosis among the local people ahead of the survey work at Dhinkia and Nuagoan panchayats. Dhinkia and Nuagaon are …
LAND IS life. It is the basis of livelihoods for peasants and indigenous people across the Third World and is also becoming the most vital asset in the global economy. As the resource demands of globalisation increase, land has emerged as a key site of conflict. In India, 65 per …
S.H. Venkatramani The exclusive and focused cultivation of a single crop in any given geography has completely stymied genetic variety and biodiversity in our farms and fields. Apart from destroying natural biodiversity, singlecrop monoculture carries the high risk of extensive crops being routed by a single pest. TODAY, THERE is …
Immediately after rt verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case on Monday, the CBI maintained that its efforts to extradite Mr Warren Anderson, former chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), who is also an accused in the case, is still on. A senior CBI official said that the agency's …
K. Pachauri WORLD ENVIRONMENT Day is celebrated each year on June 5. The first major international event dealing with the environment was held in Stockholm, from June 5-16, 1972. At that event only two heads of government were present, Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, and Olaf Palme, Prime Minister …
LALIT SHASTRI | Over 25 years after the deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide plant here in December 1984, which killed over 20,000 people and critically wounded hundreds of thousands others, Bhopal
After a trial lasting more than two decades, the judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster which killed and maimed thousands of people, would be pronounced on Monday. CJM Mohan P. Tiwari will pronounce the judgment after a 23-year-long trial in the case from the now …
New Delhi, June 6: With the Karnataka government rejecting suggestions for a CBI probe, the Union mines ministry is looking at other means to crack down on the mining mafia in the state. In the face of the Karnataka government's resistance to a CBI probe, the matter was referred to …
After lying dormant for a while, H1N1 has again started spreading in Kerala, with seven persons dying of H1N1 infection in the last three weeks. Dr Amar S. Fettle, nodal officer for H1N1 in the state, told this newspaper that the virus, which was dormant during summer, had become active …
8/S/O Asian age June 5, 2010 INDIA IS facing the inevitable toss up between saving its forests and following a fast growing development paradigm. For the last few months, this issue has hogged the centerstage, with some cabinet ministers expressing unhappiness over the minister for forests & environment Jairam Ramesh's …
RASHME SEHGAL Entire villages across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have villagers queuing up for hours to get a single pot of water. Ganga Bai of Navsari village in Gujarat points out:`We work during the day and then stand in water queues through the night.' A SCORCHING summer, the …
FOR THREE days, beginning Sunday, environment ministers from 45 countries will meet for the Petersburg Climate Dialogue named after the castle of St Petersburg located outside Bonn. The Petersburg dialogue is being held at the behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
June 4: The MCD on Friday got a cheque of Rs 5 lakhs in connection with carbon emission reduction (CER) for its solid waste compost plant at Okhla. The MCD claimed that it was the first civic body in the country to have earned carbon credit ratings. Also, it is …
HEMANT ABHISHEK THE ASIAN AGE This World Environment Day, a vigilant band of young eco-conservationists of the metropolis reflect on the lessons learnt this past year and focus on the road ahead to strengthen the battle to protect the capital's greens. The past year has seen a rise in concrete …
